Totally predictable. This past week I saw The Constant Gardner (great, four stars, an adult film with something to say about the state of the world) and missed Tony Takatani which I’ll catch on DVD. Links go to trailers if possible. Okay, so:
9/19
A Scanner Darkly - so I hear, where is it opening?
Thumbsucker
Corpse Bride
Keane - […]
Category Archives: film
Forthcoming movies I’ll see
September 10, 2005 – 8:25 am
The World
August 25, 2005 – 2:19 am
Went to go see this Chinese film this morning. It takes place in The World Park, an amusement park in Beijing that has scaled-down reproductions of various points of interest from around the globe - the Eiffel Tower in 1:3, the Sphinx, the Twin Towers. The shots of the park are interesting, and there’s a […]
Yo check it
August 11, 2005 – 11:58 am
Movies
Last night I saw The 40 Year Old Virgin and am here to testify: it is VERY VERY FUNNY. Tell your friends and see it when it opens wide on the 19th. Serious. You owe it to yourself. Don’t you wanna don’t you wanna laugh?
Music
So I bought (yeah that’s right BOUGHT) Controller 7 Bumps mixtape […]
NGM Day 3: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
May 3, 2005 – 2:24 pm
Well, I liked the sets. And the puppets. And Mos Def and the lovely Zooey Deschanel. If you’d like to see more of her, I recommend All the Real Girls, which was criminally under-seen. (And Luis: she plays the baritone ukulele. Andreaa: She went to Crossroads.)
Sin City inseparable from Nazi propaganda?
April 7, 2005 – 9:43 pm
That’s the charge of David Galbraith - that “the bad guy [the Yellow Bastard] looked like the depiction of the bad guys in shots I’ve seen from a Nazi propaganda film.” Because: “Sin City creates baddies that nobody will defend…and demonizes them to the extent that we are supposed to be entertained by the revenge […]
Twenty minutes into Sideways, and I hate it already
February 27, 2005 – 9:41 pm
What can I say? It’s Napoleon Dynamite for grown-ups.
Kung Fu Hustle
February 12, 2005 – 7:33 am
…kind of an amazing film, but only for soft to hardcore kung fu movie people. ***1/2. Check the trailer.
Weekend laze
November 7, 2004 – 12:29 am
Here’s an easy post: I keep a list called “media” to keep track of stuff I want to consume. This is it.
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Fiction:
Abe - The Woman In The Dunes
Ali - Brick Lane
Gardner - Mickelsson’s Ghosts (sounds great)
Murakami - Kafka on the Shore
Proust - Rememberance of Things Past (what’s the best translation?)
Speigelman - In The Shadow of […]
Primer
October 24, 2004 – 10:51 pm
Saw Primer at the Nuart. Made for $7000, it’s a truly excellent film by an engineer about the mechanics of time travel. (Yi Yi, one of my all-time favorites, was also made by an engineer.) The experience that will prepare you for seeing it is: playing a video game in an emulator, freezing the state […]
Watching Blind Spot
October 21, 2004 – 12:41 pm
and noting things I have in common with Hitler:
Dislike of warm rooms
Vegetarian; weak stomach and digestion
Fondness for melodramatic place-names (”Wolf’s-lair”)
A dislike of being touched by strangers
A thing for gezinta shiksas
A slump (”Eva always tells me to keep my back straight; I tell her to try standing straight with such heavy keys in your pockets”)
Owned Mercedes
and […]
Let’s change the subject
October 5, 2004 – 8:58 pm
I saw Ghost In The Shell 2: Innocence this afternoon. I’d been looking forward to it, but it was kind of…well, it was weird, of course, but in a weird way. Half of the dialogue is quotations, so watching Batou and his partner trade aphorisms reminded me of Laura and her blind sister playing the […]
I didn’t understand Carrie
September 16, 2004 – 10:16 pm
Can anybody help me? Spoliers after the jump.